Palin continues to unhinge Sullivan

I think I'm Palined-out; I find myself with very little to say about Sarah or her book. Fortunately I don't have to, because everyone else in the world is saying plenty.

Just one notable exception: Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish has declared himself (almost, but not quite) dumbstruck:

When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life. There are so many fabrications and delusions in the book, mixed in with facts, that just making sense of it - and comparing it with objective reality as we know it, and the subjective reality she has previously provided - is a bewildering task. She is a deeply disturbed person which makes this work of fiction and fact all the more challenging to read. [. . .]

Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin's unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning - specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy - we feel it's vital that we grapple with this new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of the scene. (MT)

From Pundit: Tracy Jordan wasn't talking about Going Rogue when he said this, but he could have been:

A book hasn't caused this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory.

Très amusement, non?

I'll just add one more item from husband Pundit. He couldn't get over the fact that this sorry excuse for a review was written by a U of Chicago grad. Once upon a time a U of C education meant something. Excerpt:

Much like Sarah Palin's own political debut, "Going Rogue" has burst onto the national scene demanding a response -- and normally sane and reasonable people seem unable to refuse that demand, whatever gaps in their knowledge there may be. Rush Limbaugh last week proclaimed "Going Rogue" to be "truly one of the most substantive policy books I've read," though that certainly raises questions about what other policy books Rush has read and by what lights he considers the Palin book to be one. For all I know, it may be true. There may truly be substantive discussion of policy, something that goes beyond the thudding "taxes bad"/"government small" rhetoric that characterizes the moments when Palin turns her personal narrative into a discussion of government workings.

The book may demand a response but it's not going to get one from Ms. Cox, who, understandably, hasn't had time to read the whole thing, and less understandably, is mainly interested in Sarah's feelings about cigarette smoke and smokers:

I cannot claim to have completely read "Going Rogue" -- I had to skim the last 150 pages (or more than one-third). I only got the thing into my hands late Monday afternoon with a deadline of early evening. It's terrible, I know, but if I didn't read it all, neither can Sarah Palin claim to have completely written it.

One of the few surprises of the book: For a frontierswoman, Palin really doesn't like smokers -- especially if they're men working for John McCain. She describes the "jaded" "professional political caste" of the McCain campaign as "tumbling out of the bus in a pack, lighting cigarettes as they went so it looked like a walking cloud of smoke with legs," and, later, she gets a nasty jab in at senior adviser Steve Schmidt, who, she says, "used nicotine to keep . . . his cognitive connections humming along."

And so on. I wonder if the second half of the review got lost in the mail or something.

Linked at Michelle Malkin (buzzworthy)

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